Katharina Hecht
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Katharina Hecht is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the International Business and Strategy Group at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business and a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities.Previously Katharina held fellowships at the ‘Politics of Inequality’ cluster at the University of Konstanz, Germany and at the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania.
Katharina’s research relates to perceptions of income and wealth inequality, the temporal aspects of wealth, conceptualizations of richness, and geographic mobility and social mobility into higher managerial and professional occupations. Her doctoral research focused on perceptions of top incomes and wealth.
Hecht, K. (2021). ‘It’s the value that we bring’: performance pay and top income earners’ perceptions of inequality. Socio-Economic Review. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwab044
Hecht, K., Burchardt, T., & Davis, A. (2022). Richness, Insecurity and the Welfare State. Journal of Social Policy, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1017/S004727942200061
Hecht, K., & McArthur, D. (2022). Moving on up? How Social Origins Shape Geographic Mobility within Britain’s Higher Managerial and Professional Occupations. Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385221113669
Hecht, K., & Summers, K. (2021). The long and short of it: The temporal significance of wealth and income. Social Policy & Administration, 55(4), 732–746. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12654
Savage, M., Hecht, K., Hjellbrekke, J., Cunningham, N., & Laurison, D. (2018). The anatomy of the British economic “elite.” In O. Korsnes, J. Heilbron, J. Hjellbrekke, F. Bühlmann, & M. Savage (Eds.), New Directions in Elite Studies. Routledge.
Summers, K., Accominotti, F., Burchardt, T., Hecht, K., Mann, E., & Mijs, J. (2022). Deliberating Inequality: A Blueprint for Studying the Social Formation of Beliefs about Economic Inequality. Social Justice Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-022-00389-0
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RP 954
Introduction to Sociology
SOCL 1101
Explores diverse social phenomena, from how people try to look their best in face-to-face interactions; to how race, gender, and class shape identities and social conditions; to how industrial capitalism came to dominate the world. Offers students an opportunity to gain a grasp of key sociological theories and empirical research on topics such as social order, social conflict, and social change, as well as learn to identify social forces that shape human behavior, explain how these forces affect individuals and social groups, and make valid predictions about how they may shape future behavior or events.
